How-To Determine Year of Manufacture- Marlin - Page 3. StanTN: The serial numbering system can become confusing if one isn't familiar with it. Your 'G' prefix .22 is a 1950 production rifle. Where you are going astray in determining the date, is to remember that if there is a letter prefix in the serial number, the leter is what determines the year of manufacture, not the first two numbers.

History of Ballard Rifles - Cap'n Ball Ballard #5 Click on any image for a larger view. Not a great deal is known about the man who designed and patented what was to become one of the finest single shot actions made in the United States.

Collectible Foreign Longarms Catalog - OldGuns.net Collectible Foreign Longarms (post-1898) Important information about ordering firearms from us! If you see a firearm that you want, let us know and we will hold it for you.

Savage Shooters - What model 99 do I have? Savage 99's (and other Savage firearms), made from 1949 thru 1970, had a Letter Date Code stamped into the receiver bottom ( just ahead of the Model 99's lever), and is often seen referred to on Model 99's as the 'Lever Boss Code' (LBC).